Does Bad Memory Make AI More Cautious? We Ran the Experiment A field study on injected...
Does Bad Memory Make AI More Cautious? We Ran the Experiment
A field study on injected memory, learned helplessness, and decision bias in LLMs
The Question
Humans have learned helplessness — a psychological phenomenon where repeated failures in one domain erode confidence and decision-making, sometimes generalizing to unrelated areas (Seligman, 1972). Fail enough times at math, and you might stop raising your hand in English class too.
Do large language models exhibit the same pattern?
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